The Kerguelen Islands in the Indian Ocean are one of four districts in the French Austral and Antarctic Territories. These islands, one of the most isolated places on Earth, house a military base and ...

Sometimes, the best kind of escape isn’t a luxury resort or a famous beach; it’s a quiet, untouched speck of land where time ...

A warm, sunny summer day in the southern Indian Ocean allowed the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra satellite to capture a rare cloud-free image of the Kerguelen ...

Patterned clouds surround the Kerguelen Islands, in the southern Indian Ocean in today’s image. The clouds parted enough for the MODIS on the Terra satellite could capture this view, from February 15, ...

How did the continents form? Although to a certain extent this remains an open question, the oceanic plateau of the Kerguelen Islands may well provide part of the answer, according to a ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. That's likely why an entirely new species of gentoo penguin has been overlooked on the Kerguelen Islands—or, as the French refer to ...

Well, we’re in luck, because according to a report from British green group Forum for the Future we’ll all soon face deportation to the sunny Kerguelen Islands. The report, now a decade old, ...